The Worshipful Company of Tobacco Pipe Makers and Tobacco Blenders
Part of the World Heritage site at Ironbridge Gorge in Staffordshire, The Broseley Pipeworks Museum is not only a time capsule recording the traditional craft of clay tobacco pipe making but it is also home to a collection of fine and historic tobacco-themed prints owned by the Company.
These prints are on loan to the Museum and many are on display with descriptions, explanations and context provided by the curator.
Whilst many people visit the Museum each year and enjoy seeing the prints, we offer here a selection of the items. We hope that you enjoy them too.
Flick through the images below. Click on an image to view an enlarged version.
Vy Don’t You Waxinate
Vienne
The Smoking Club
The Music Hall Snob
The Lumber Troop
The Laird of Dumbiedikes
The Despatch Bearers
Tabak of Nicotiana, Naar't level Getekend
Sunday Recreation
Soulagement en Prison
Porthos
Notions of the Agreeable No.28
Monkeys Puffing Cigars
Moeurs Parisiennes
Modeles de Tournures
Man-smoking-a-waterpipe
Malayan and his wife
Lun Scene
Les Fumeurs et les Priseurs
Les Fumers Hollandois
Les Extremes se Touchent
Le Bonnet Vert
Lady smoking
La Diligence
Knives or Cisers to Grinde
Group of people smoking and drinking
Die Turkenpfeife von Pfeffe
Die Schone Kaffesiederin in Dampfe
Delicate Pleasures
Coshamy
Comic Notions No.2
Comfort
Boors Drinking
Matter of Taste as Regards Smoking
Art Ave Hochlane
A Penny Hawanner
A Young Poodle
An Ordinance Dream or Planning of Fortifications